The Ven Mervyn Saxelbye Evers, MC was archdeacon of Lahore from 1940 to 1944. [1]
He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and ordained in 1914. [2] His first post was as a curate at St Matthew, Hull after which he was a chaplain [3] to the British Armed Forces from 1914 to [4] 1919. [5] He was curate of All Saints, Northampton from 1919 to 1920 and Boys’ School secretary for the Church Mission Society from 1920 [6] to 1923 then curate of St Matthew, West Ham from 1923 to 1924. He served the church in the North Western Frontier Province from 1924 to 1944: he was at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Waziristan, Ambala and Shimla before his years as Archdeacon; and at Boroughbridge, Guestling and Rye afterwards.
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